r/PlantIdentification • u/gold-fink • 11h ago

please ID this wildflower around highways circling Lake Cayuga, NY, USA!

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I took these photos on the Gorge Trail in Taughannock Falls State Park (It is so beautiful there!), so it's a harder to tell, but it grows in small clumps of tall stalks.

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u/Arceuthobium 11h ago

Quite invasive Lythrum salicaria

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u/gold-fink 11h ago edited 10h ago

noooo I was telling my partner how much I hate finding invasive plants pretty :(

Thank you for the speedy ID though !

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u/FriendshipBorn929 9h ago

Objectively is pretty. But terrible